Mayday: Season 25
Season 25 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mayday Season 24.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 25 Progress Shield
Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
Feb 3, 2025 · 44 min
The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
Feb 10, 2025 · 44 min
An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
Power Struggle
Feb 17, 2025 · 43 min
Power Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
Feb 24, 2025 · 44 min
Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
Mar 3, 2025 · 44 min
Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
Cabin Chaos
Mar 10, 2025 · 43 min
Cabin Chaos: After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
Mar 17, 2025 · 44 min
It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
Firebomber Down
Mar 24, 2025 · 44 min
Firebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
Mar 31, 2025 · 44 min
German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
Apr 7, 2025 · 42 min
When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
No Exit (US Air 1493)
May 26, 2025 · 44 min
Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.